{"version":"1.0","provider_name":"Bible Lessons from Jeff Gulleson","provider_url":"https:\/\/www.jeffgulleson.com\/bible-studies","author_name":"Jeff Gulleson","author_url":"https:\/\/www.jeffgulleson.com\/bible-studies\/author\/jgulleson\/","title":"I TIMOTHY 1:3-4a - Bible Lessons from Jeff Gulleson","type":"rich","width":600,"height":338,"html":"<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"DCMVWek1FK\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.jeffgulleson.com\/bible-studies\/1-timothy\/1-timothy-1\/i-timothy-13-4a\/\">I TIMOTHY 1:3-4a<\/a><\/blockquote><iframe sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" src=\"https:\/\/www.jeffgulleson.com\/bible-studies\/1-timothy\/1-timothy-1\/i-timothy-13-4a\/embed\/#?secret=DCMVWek1FK\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" title=\"&#8220;I TIMOTHY 1:3-4a&#8221; &#8212; Bible Lessons from Jeff Gulleson\" data-secret=\"DCMVWek1FK\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" class=\"wp-embedded-content\"><\/iframe><script>\n\/*! 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Yet so much of the effort of the New Testament is geared to helping us master our belief system and keep it in tact.\u00a0\u00a0 Due to our humanness, our fallen state, the impact of the world and the flesh and the devil, it is so easy for us to go astray.\u00a0 Knowing what we believe and letting our belief system impact our lives is a great part of\u00a0 \u201cbeing a Christian.\u201d &nbsp; QUOTE \/ TRANSPAR [Unknown A1]\u00a0ENCY: &#8220;&#8230; religious syncretism was in the air in the Hellenistic world, and many Hellenistic Jews appear to have been involved in such speculations (genealogies).\u00a0 When Gentiles were converted, they, too, brought to the faith a lot of foreign baggage, both philosophical and religious, that to them seemed easy enough to absorb within their new faith in Christ&#8221; (Fee, pg 9). &nbsp; It will be clear from any careful reading that a concern for the gospel is the driving force behind the Pastoral Epistles.\u00a0 Preserving and reaffirming &#8220;the glorious gospel of the blessed God&#8221; (1:11) against errors absolutely dominates I Timothy, is still a vital concern in Titus, and returns in 2 Timothy as the crux of everything. (Fee, 15) &nbsp; 2.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 SOURCE OF FALSE TEACHING \u00a0 \u201c\u2026. some will abandon the faith and follow deceiving spirits and things taught by demons\u201d (I Tim. 4:1). \u00a0 Now the serpent was more crafty than any beast of the field which the LORD God had made. And he said to the woman, &#8220;Indeed, has God said, &#8216;You shall not eat from any tree of the garden &#8216;?&#8221; (Gen 3:1) \u00a0 Jesus said: \u201c \u2026 the devil \u2026 he is a liar and the father of lies\u2026\u201d (John 8:44,45). \u00a0 \u201cAnd the devil, who deceived them, was thrown into the lake of burning sulfur \u2026\u201d\u00a0 (Rev. 20:10). \u00a0 3.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 OVERVIEW OF FALSE TEACHING\u00a0 FACING EPHESIAN CHURCH \u00a0 I Timothy 1:4 \u2013 myths; I Timothy 4:7 \u2013 godless myths; Titus 1:14 \u2013 Jewish myths. I Tim 1:4 &amp; Titus 3:9 \u2013 endless genealogies. I Tim. 4:1 &#8211; Things taught by demons (don\u2019t marry, abstain from certain foods). I Tim. 4:7 \u2013 Old wives tales I Tim. 6:20 \u2013 knowledge, falsely so called II Tim. 2:18 \u2013 Resurrection is past &nbsp; OVERALL: Myths, \u201cfalse\u201d knowledge, deny resurrection &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; Mythical histories \u2013 some Jewish teachers developed mythical histories based on genealogies about people\u2019s origins, trying to trace and speculate about ancestry all the way back to Adam and Even. Philo, the great Jewish Hellenist philosopher from Alexandria in Egypt, wrote in this vein. &nbsp; \u201cThe ancient world had a passion for genealogies. We can [&hellip;]"}